3 December 2020 Henry James The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
3 December 2020 Henry James It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
3 December 2020 Henry James We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
3 December 2020 Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid.
3 December 2020 Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
3 December 2020 Henry James I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
3 December 2020 Henry James Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
